The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.
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If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.Talcott Parsons
Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other -- only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.
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The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
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But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
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In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
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From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.
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